Sussex’s relegation fears grew as they slipped closer towards a heavy defeat to Nottinghamshire at Horsham.

Harry Gurney took 5-75 as Sussex were bowled out for 213 in the morning - having resumed on 157-4 – despite a half century from Luke Wright.

Nottinghamshire decided to enforce the follow-on and Luke Wells fell for a duck as Sussex reached lunch on 14-1, still needing another 343 runs to make the visitors bat again.

The only positive for Sussex was that they managed to pick up a solitary batting point which at one stage looked uncertain as wickets fell at regular intervals.

Brett Hutton made the initial breakthrough as he trapped Craig Cachopa lbw for 13 before Gurney picked up the wickets of Ben Brown and Wright.

Brown gloved a half-hearted pull and was caught behind down the leg side while Wright edged to slip having brought up his eighth 50 of the season from 86 balls.

Ollie Robinson was stuck on nought for 21 balls before losing patience and edging Gary Keedy behind going for an ugly slog across the line.

At that point Sussex were 198-8 but Peter Burgoyne and Steve Magoffin secured a batting point before Burgoyne was bowled by Luke Wood.

Matt Hobden was the last to fall when he drove loosely at Keedy to give wicketkeeper Chris Read his fifth catch.

Sussex’s suffered another blow when Wells edged the fifth ball of their second innings from Wood to slip to depart for a duck.